preternatural
英 [,pri?t?'n?t?(?)r(?)l]
美
- adj. 超自然的；異常的，不可思議的
GRE
詞態(tài)變化
副詞:?preternaturally;
中文詞源
preternatural 超自然的
來自拉丁語praeter,超過，超越，更早，natural,自然的。比喻用法。
英文詞源
- preternatural (adj.)
- 1570s, from Medieval Latin preternaturalis (mid-13c.), from Latin phrase praeter naturam (praeterque fatum) "beyond nature (and beyond fate)," from praeter "beyond" (see preterite) + accusative of natura "nature" (see natural). "Preternatural is used especially to note that which might have been a work of nature, but is not" [Century Dictionary].
雙語例句
- 1. Below his preternatural affability there is some acid and steel.
- 在他異常和藹可親的表情之下,有著尖刻和鋼鐵般的堅毅.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. Their parents had an almost preternatural ability to understand what was going on in their children's minds.
- 他們的父母有著一種近乎神奇的能力，能夠洞悉他們的孩子腦子里在想些什么。
來自辭典例句
- 3. The suddenness of storms in that climate is something almost preternatural.
- 在那地帶,突起的風暴幾乎是件不可思議的事.
來自辭典例句
- 4. In Pearl's young beauty, as in the wrinkled witch, it has a preternatural effect.
- 在年幼、美麗的珠兒身上, 和那滿臉皺紋的老妖婆一樣, 準有一種超自然的力量.
來自英漢文學 - 紅字
- 5. I'm a spirit with preternatural flesh . Detached. Unchangeable . Empty.
- 我是一具沒有靈魂的軀殼,孤立,不變,空虛.
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